His Ruined Heart

Nine years after Culloden, Blair Sutherland farms sheep on the wrong side of the law and drinks to forget a battle he lost and a charge he still owes.\n\nCatriona Lennox is twenty, a smuggler's daughter, and washes up on his beach with a torn sail and a barrel of contraband. She stays one night. It gets worse from there.\n\nHe thinks she is reckless. She thinks he is a coward. When a Navy cutter anchors in the bay, one of them has to be wrong.\n\nShe asks him to plan the run. He says no. She asks again.\n\nWhat follows is fog, a skiff, an arrest nine years overdue, and a woman standing in a Leith dockyard three years later, counting the ships she bought with brandy money while she waited.\n\nA Scottish Historical Age Gap Opposites Attract Romance of contraband, redemption, and the long arithmetic of the years between them.